Aid Group Says Syria Deaths Suggest Chemical Attack

A WSJ Roundup

Updated Aug. 25, 2013 12:53 a.m. ET

An international aid group said Saturday that hospitals near a purported chemical-weapons attack earlier this week have counted 355 deaths and more than 3,000 injuries that suggest possible exposure to chemical weapons.

Doctors Without Borders said three hospitals it supports in the eastern Damascus region reported receiving roughly 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms" over less than three hours on Wednesday morning,...